Results: Cheerleading: A Sport Or Not?
Published on 03/16/2024
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1.
1.
Do you regularly watch any team sports where cheerleaders are present to root for at least one of the teams playing any given game?
Yes
23%
492 votes
Once did; may again
9%
195 votes
Don't currently; may start
5%
102 votes
No
62%
1311 votes
2.
2.
If there are cheerleaders present during any of games played in team sports you regularly watch, do you pay any significant degree of attention to those cheerleaders?
Yes, more often than not
11%
222 votes
Sometimes/It depends on...
19%
389 votes
No
34%
711 votes
Not Applicable
37%
778 votes
3.
3.
Apart from whatever boost of morale they may be to the teams they're supporting and the supporters of the teams in the stands and watching their games elsewhere, do you appreciate the athleticism, choreography and other aspects of cheerleading and cheerleaders?
Yes
39%
814 votes
Unsure/Indifferent
17%
357 votes
No
17%
350 votes
Not Applicable
28%
579 votes
4.
4.
Have you ever been (or are you currently) a cheerleader or had anyone in your immediately family who has been or presently is a cheerleader?
Yes, at least one of the designations above applies to me &/or someone in my immediate family.
16%
346 votes
Unknown to me (at least regarding any immediate family members)
8%
176 votes
No
75%
1578 votes
5.
5.
Considering the physicality of the activities required of them and that some cheer squads participate in competitions where their routines are judged and awarded (at least on levels beneath cheerleading for professional sorts teams), do you consider cheerleading only adjacent to sports or also a sport in itself?
Only adjacent
20%
412 votes
Undecided/Uncaring
43%
907 votes
Also a sport in itself
37%
781 votes
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